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Introduction to McDATA Multi-Protocol Products 1 Figure 1-7 illustrates the switch. Figure 1-7 Sphereon 4500 Fabric Switch The switch provides a modular design that enables quick removal and replacement of FRUs, including: • Redundant power supplies and cooling fans. The switch provides two power supplies, each with an AC power receptacle and three cooling fans (six fans total). • Up to 24 duplex SFP fiber-optic port transceivers. Shortwave laser transceivers are available for transferring data over multimode fiber-optic cable. Longwave laser transceivers are available for transferring data over singlemode fiber-optic cable. Fiber-optic cables attach to switch port transceivers with duplex LC connectors. NOTE: The Sphereon 4500 Switch can be purchased at a discount price with the McDATA Flexport Technology feature. A Flexport Technology feature switch is delivered with only eight ports enabled. When additional port capacity is required, the remaining ports are enabled (in eight-port increments) through purchase of a PFE key. The switch front panel provides a combined initial machine load and reset (IML/RESET) button, Ethernet LAN connector, port status LEDs, port speed LEDs (green for 1.0625 Gbps operation and blue for 2.1250 Gbps operation), green power (PWR) LED, and amber system error (ERR) LED. Introduction to McDATA Multi-Protocol Products 1-19